Pakistani authorities have blocked 13,000 obscene websites Pornographic websites have ceased to be the ‘most dangerous’ places on web for picking up viruses. The Internet Security Threat report for 2011, released by security Software Company Symantec (SYMC) ranks pornographic sites at 9th as the riskiest to visit. One of the most fascinating part of the report is in the review of malicious code trends, whic ...

A senior official at the National Iranian Petrochemical Company (NIPC) says Iran is set to inaugurate two major petrochemical projects in the country’s Pars Special Economic Energy Zone (Assaluyeh). The Kaviyan Petrochemical Complex (Olefin 11), as the world’s largest ethylene producer, as well as the West Ethylene Pipeline will come on stream in the near future, Ahmad Reza Heidarnia, the projects director ...

Facebook launches new camera app Facebook's rocky initial public offering hasn't stopped life at the world's biggest online social network. On Thursday, the company unveiled a camera app for the iPhone. The app, made for the iPhone, can be downloaded from Apple's App Store. It works like most other camera applications for smart phones. To take a photo, you tap a camera icon in the upper left corner of your ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Thursday began revealing details about requests for links to be removed from Internet search results on the grounds they lead to copyrighted material posted without permission. Google added a copyright section to the online transparency report it launched two years ago to provide information about how often government officials ask for material to be removed from its online venues. ...

South Africa, Australia and New Zealand will host the world’s biggest radio telescope capable of surveying the sky more than ten thousand times faster than before. The three countries provide the best location for the 1.5bn-euro Square Kilometre Array (SKA) since they afford the best view of the Milky Way and host the least radio interference. The radio telescope will probe the early Universe, test Einstein ...

A “threats report” released late Monday by McAfee showed that the number of new pieces of malicious code, or “malware,” targeting Windows machines in the first three months of this year was the highest in four years. SAN FRANCISCO:Cyber criminals are cranking out new weapons at a brisk pace, tailoring malicious software for a spectrum of gadgets including smartphones, tablets, and Macintosh computers, a sec ...

Doctors in Italy have implanted the smallest ever artificial heart into a 16-month-old baby who needed time to receive a permanent heart transplant. “In March, the smallest artificial heart in the world was implanted at the Bambino Gesu Hospital in Rome,” said Dr. Antonio Amodeo, the heart surgeon who carried out the 10 hour breakthrough operation. “The device, a titanium pump weighing only 11 grams and tha ...

The YouTube logo appears on screen before a keynote address by Vice President of Global Content Partnerships at YouTube Robert Kyncl at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Hotel & Casino January 12, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. – File Photo by AFP SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube celebrated its seventh birthday by saying it has hit fresh milestones in terms of its offerings and the amo ...

Facebook profiles can be used by police Facebook may relax a ban on children under the age of 13 joining its site after finding that many kids, some with their parents' permission and help, were already using it. "There is reputable evidence that there are kids under 13 who are lying about their age to get on to Facebook," SundayTimes quoted Simon Milner, Facebook's head of policy in Britain as saying. "Som ...

A group named ‘Indishell’ has claimed to hack the website, with its name prominently mentioned on the hacked site’s homepage, along with a message saying ‘We have an EYE on you’ that is strategically placed under cat eyes with pupils donned as the Indian flag. MULTAN: The Multan district government website was defaced by Indian hackers on Sunday. The hackers had erased all official data on the website and p ...